09-15-2017, 11:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-15-2017, 11:40 PM by retrolinkx.)
So after watching five episodes of Kakegurui, all I can really say is that it's not bad but it's nowhere as good as Kaiji. It's more a 7/10.
The main problem I have with the show (well besides the blatant fan service that's shoved in your face every damn minute) is that it feels like there is no real danger to any of the gambles that the main character takes, especially when everyone is a fucking kid of a rich politician or something so money is hardly the issue.
In one episode there was danger of loses all your fingernails and toenails, but as awful as that sounds it's currently the worse thing that can happen to the main character so far. Otherwise if you're too much in debt you become a "Housepet" which is sort of like a weird slave that does whatever other students say, but apart from that it's not even too bad. Housepet status is hard to break out of, and in some cases if you can't pay it back they literally plan out a life for you with some politician to be married to so money can be made back through that.
This is nothing like what could happen in Kaiji or Akagi, where death and loss of limbs/functions of the body were big big parts of the gambles. It feels like there is no real disadvantage to losing.
The main character is also too much of a Mary Sue, sure Akagi was never meant to lose in his games but at least he would show shock to something not going his way, or somehow find a way to turn the tables in his favour if one person were to cheat. With this anime the main character seems to be a step ahead of everyone and always smiles, never showing anything she did as a mistake, and even when she does lose she rejoices in it.
The only real interest this show has is the gambling. The gambling is pretty interesting and is done well mostly because everyone is cheating and the main character has to find a way to discover the cheating and work it into her strategy so that she can win. So each time she gambles, there is a challenge she must take.
Personally, if I were to do this show. I would've rather have had the main character be someone who got into this prestigious school via a competition that was similar to the Ultimate Lucky Student in Danganronpa (Out of everyone that could've been chosen to attend this school, Makoto was chosen and thus he must be very lucky) but otherwise she was from a poor background and stays out of the bets this school has, until one day she is forced to bet in a gamble that is obviously against her (other person is cheating and knows it, finds pleasure in picking on the weak) and through luck and intuition she turned the odds into her favour and wins, and from this one event everyone in the school wants to have a gamble with her, and she can't say no otherwise she'd be expelled.
The anime isn't bad since the music is really good, the gambles are interesting and the main character is fun to watch due to being unpredictable, but if you're aching for a gambling anime, watch Kaiji first and then this.
The main problem I have with the show (well besides the blatant fan service that's shoved in your face every damn minute) is that it feels like there is no real danger to any of the gambles that the main character takes, especially when everyone is a fucking kid of a rich politician or something so money is hardly the issue.
In one episode there was danger of loses all your fingernails and toenails, but as awful as that sounds it's currently the worse thing that can happen to the main character so far. Otherwise if you're too much in debt you become a "Housepet" which is sort of like a weird slave that does whatever other students say, but apart from that it's not even too bad. Housepet status is hard to break out of, and in some cases if you can't pay it back they literally plan out a life for you with some politician to be married to so money can be made back through that.
This is nothing like what could happen in Kaiji or Akagi, where death and loss of limbs/functions of the body were big big parts of the gambles. It feels like there is no real disadvantage to losing.
The main character is also too much of a Mary Sue, sure Akagi was never meant to lose in his games but at least he would show shock to something not going his way, or somehow find a way to turn the tables in his favour if one person were to cheat. With this anime the main character seems to be a step ahead of everyone and always smiles, never showing anything she did as a mistake, and even when she does lose she rejoices in it.
The only real interest this show has is the gambling. The gambling is pretty interesting and is done well mostly because everyone is cheating and the main character has to find a way to discover the cheating and work it into her strategy so that she can win. So each time she gambles, there is a challenge she must take.
Personally, if I were to do this show. I would've rather have had the main character be someone who got into this prestigious school via a competition that was similar to the Ultimate Lucky Student in Danganronpa (Out of everyone that could've been chosen to attend this school, Makoto was chosen and thus he must be very lucky) but otherwise she was from a poor background and stays out of the bets this school has, until one day she is forced to bet in a gamble that is obviously against her (other person is cheating and knows it, finds pleasure in picking on the weak) and through luck and intuition she turned the odds into her favour and wins, and from this one event everyone in the school wants to have a gamble with her, and she can't say no otherwise she'd be expelled.
The anime isn't bad since the music is really good, the gambles are interesting and the main character is fun to watch due to being unpredictable, but if you're aching for a gambling anime, watch Kaiji first and then this.